Personal Injury Law

Jury To Decide Caltrans Settlement In Mudslide

By Edward Bills

A California jury found Caltrans 31 percent responsible for a 2003 mudslide that killed 14 in a local church. The jury will decide this week how much the agency must pay to settle the suit. The suit, filed by the church, claimed Caltrans “created an unnatural diversion of floodwater, which created substantial debris flows onto slopes below the highway that fueled the deadly mudslide.” St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church settled a suit with the families of the victims in 2008 for $13 million.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).